(A) Narrative History.
The month of May proved to be one of excellent weather. Not many missions were stood down. With the combat crews improving with every mission, spirits in the Group as a whole were high.
The Group Navigator, Captain Marion M. Pruitt, became the first individual in the Group to go to rest camp when he left for the Isle of Capri on 8 May 1944. Following his return, an average of two crews and several members of the ground personnel were sent each week to Capri. Before the end of the month other personnel of the Group were sent to various rest camps in Italy.
On May 8th the name of “Liberaiders” was selected for the Group. This name was submitted in a contest by co-pilot, 2nd Lt. Paavo A. Koistinen of the 767th Squadron. Presently this name appeared in large yellow letters on a blue background centrally located at the top of the map of Europe in the Briefing Room. Still later it appeared on highway signs leading to Group Headquarters and on all of the motor vehicles of the Group.
A special Courts Martial was appointed on May 20th. The personnel of the court is as follows:
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Major R. Foster Scott |
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Major Leigh M. Lott |
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Major Morris J. Drobeck |
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Major John P. Joyce |
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Major Sidney Rainen |
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Major Herald D. Bennett |
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Captain Walter G. Mitton |
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Captain William F. Foster |
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1st Lt. Robert A. Preciado |
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1st Lt. Roy E. Huber |
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2nd Lt. Harold Q. Danford |
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1st Lt. Raymond L. Wilcovitz, Trail Judge Advocate |
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2nd Lt. Robert F. Thorne, Assistant Trial Judge Advocate |
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1st Lt. Fred F. Hill, Defense Counsel |
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2nd Lt. Karl A. Pfister, Assistant Defense Counsel |
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Colonel Glantzberg returned from a trip to Headquarters of the Fifteenth Air Force on May 20th highly elated by the fact that for the past week the 461st had led the Air Force in the percentage of bombing accuracy and had carried the 49th Wing into second place in the Wing ratings. The following evening he conducted a big rally in the Group Theatre. There he revealed to the flying and ground personnel what he had learned at Air Force Headquarters. In his remarks he expressed a firm belief in the ability of the Group to maintain its place at the top of the pile.
(B) Operations.
During the month of May the 461st Group’s “Country Club Kids”, who had first spread their wings over Europe in April, soared to the top of the Fifteenth Air Force in bombing accuracy. A total of twenty missions were flown. The major target were Bucharest, Ploesti, and Wiener Neustadt.
On its missions the Group flew 742 sorties for a total of 8,753 combat hours. Early returns totaled 67 planes. Briefed targets were hit with a total of 1,477 tons of bombs. The Group lost seven planes and crews, had one officers and men wounded. Twelve enemy airplanes were destroyed, eight were probably destroyed, and six were damaged.
Missions
Mission
No. 17, 1 May 1944 – Klagenfurt Components Factory, Austria (Cancelled)
Mission
No. 17, 2 May 1944 – La Spezia Harbor, Italy
Primary target was Parma Marshalling Yard, Italy. Alternate targets were any active marshalling yard in North Italy except Florence and Rimini. Colonel Glantzberg led the Wing. Formation ran into overcast at 21,000 feet short of target. After dropping to 18,000 feet to get under overcast, the Colonel lost part of his own Group formation and the remainder of the Wing formation in making a 360° turn at 15,000 feet. Colonel reassembled the eighteen planes left in his formation and bombed La Spezia Harbor with fair results.
Twenty other planes of the Group bombed a total of eight other targets in Northern Italy. Despite the fact that this was the second mission within a month on which the Colonel had lost his formation in weather, had reassembled it above the weather, and had gone on to bomb an alternate target, he was worried as to what the Fifteenth Air Force would think of the Group and Wing accomplishments for the day.
All was forgiven and forgotten when later reports showed that F/O Keith L. Fuller and his co-pilot, F/O Mac L. Lucas, making a single plane attack, had sunk their target of opportunity, a warship in the harbor of La Spezia. The navigator on the plane was 2nd Lt. Thomas E. Daly, Jr.; the bombardier was 2nd Lt. Rogue Gonzales.
Mission
No. 18, 3 May 1944 – Ploesti M/Y, Roumania (Cancelled)
Mission
No. 18, 5 May 1944 – Ploesti M/Y, Roumania
Major Knapp led the formation on the first mission this Group ever flew to Ploesti. About thirty enemy planes were seen and a few were encountered. There were no claims. Flak at the target was intense, accurate, and heavy. Crew members were surprised at the amount of flak coming from guns placed in open fields outside the city limits.
Seeing that his target had been hard hit and was completely obscured by smoke, the lead bombardier, Lt. King, swung from his briefed target to the large South Marshalling Yard which was hit with fair results. This decision by Lt. King brought repercussions from the Group Commander, the 49th Wing, and the Air Force.
On the return route the formation passed over the defended Bor Mines Area and was shot up badly by flak. As a result of this flak the Group brought back its first man killed in action, 2nd Lt. Joseph F. Meyers, a bombardier. Two other men were wounded and every airplane in the formation was hit.
COMMENDATION
“FROM: LEE, CO, 49TH BOMB WING (H)
“TO: COMMANDING OFFICER, 451ST, 461ST, 484TH BOMB GROUP.
“I WISH TO ADD MY CONGRADUKATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM GENERAL EAKER FOR THE BOMBING CARRIED OUT BY THE FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE THE PAST WEEK: ‘DURING THE PAST WEEK U.S. AND RAF FORCES UNDER YOUR COMMAND CONCENTRATED THEIR EFFORTS, NIGHT AND DAY, AGAINST COMMUNICATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL TARGETS IN BALKANS WITH MOST-SIGNIFICANT RESULTS. THE ENEMY POSITION HAS BEEN GREATLY WEAKENED BY THE SERIOUS INTERRUPTION OF HIS RAIL AND RIVER TRANSPORTATION. THE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY OF THE GREAT PLOESTI OIL REFINING SYSTEM HAS BEEN REDUCED TO LESS THAN 25% OF ITS NORMAL OUTPUT. ON MAY 5TH THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF BOMBS DROPPED BY THE COMBINED AIR FORCES IN THIS THEATRE SINCE 8TH NOVEMBER, 1942, PASSED TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND TONS. THIS OCCASION WAS APPROPRIATELY MARKED BY YOUR ATTACK ON PLOESTI ON THAT DATE. PLEASE EXTEND TO THE FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE, AAF, AND 205TH GROUP RAF, MY CONGRATULATIONS ON THEIR EFFECTIVE OPERATIONS AGAINST THE GERMAN STRONGHOLDS IN THE BALKANS DURING THE FIRST WEEK IN MAY’”.
Mission
No. 19, 6 May 1944 – Pitesti M/Y, Roumania
When Major Applegate, the Group Leader, aborted, his Squadron operations officer, Captain Hoermann, took over the lead. This was the first time that a leader of this Group had aborted. The field order for this mission called for an axis of attack different than that for any other mission previously flown by this Group. Instead of hitting the marshalling yard at an angle, the formation dropped its bombs while flying along the tracks. With an intervalometer setting of 325 feet, the bomb strikes began at the briefed aiming point at one end of the marshalling yard and walked straight down the rows of tracks a distance of 5500 feet. Because of the intervalometer setting, it was mechanically impossible to drop a large concentration of bombs within 1,000 feet of the briefed aiming point. This mission, nevertheless, was considered highly successful because of the many hits scored the whole length of the target.
Mission
No. 20, 7 May 1944 – Bucharest M/Y, Roumania
Back to the familiar target area of the Chitila Marshalling Yard of Bucharest, the Group employed practically the same procedure in attacking this target as had been used the previous at Pitesti. The briefed aiming point was in front of a plot of rectangular buildings located near the round house near the northwest end of the marshalling yard. The mission was well led by Captain Goree but the bombs of the first section were somewhat scattered and many of them were to the right of the target. Lt. Faherty, lead bombardier of the second Section, however, rang the bell with a beautiful pattern on the briefed aiming point. Reconnaissance pictures showed the target was hard hit by concentration of 39 per cent of our bombs within 1,000 feet of the briefed aiming point. Only a few enemy airplanes were seen and only three of our bombers were damaged by flak.
Mission
No. 21, 8 May 1944 – Ploesti, Xenia Oil Refinery, Roumania (Cancelled)
Mission
No. 21, 10 May 1944 – Wiener Neustadt Nord A/D, Austria
Failure to recognize and hit the briefed target on the Group’s first mission to the hot target of Wiener Neustadt robbed Lt. Col. Hawes, the Wing and Group leader, of rare distinction. The formation flew through showers over the Adriatic and ran into a front in Yugoslavia. Colonel Hawes led the Wing formation through this front and continued on course. At the initial point part of the formation was hit by enemy fighters, 1st Lt. W.C. Wallace, flight leader of the “B” Flight in Second Section, was knocked down and his flight was attacked aggressively by enemy fighters. This was the first airplane from the Group ever lost to fighters. The attack cost the enemy seven planes destroyed, seven probables, and three damaged. The long bomb run, made against a strong headwind, kept the formation eleven minutes in flak. As a result of this mission, Lt. Wallace and his crew were missing; S/Sgt. Joseph F. Nobile, a ball turret gunner, was killed; six other men were injured; and twenty six airplanes were damaged. All the crew members returning from this mission agreed that Wiener Neustadt was as hot as it had been reported.
Mission
No. 22, 12 May 1944 – Marina di Carrara M/Y, Italy
In anticipation of this mission, Colonel Glantzberg, Lt. Colonel Hawes, Major Lott, and Major Burke attended a special conference conducted by Colonel Lee at Wing Headquarters on 11 May 1944. There they learned the following facts:
a. “H” hour for the Italian Front had been set for 2300 o’clock of 11 May 1944.
b. All heavy Bomb Groups in the Fifteenth Air Force were assigned to fly two missions against marshalling yards in the Po River Valley area, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, on 12 May 1944.
c. The route out for these missions was planned in such a way as to take nineteen Groups over south-central Italy to within sight of the bomb line, then west along the bomb line, and then north on the Anzio Beachhead.
In executing this mission, many of the Groups including the 461st did not fly the afternoon missions because of bad weather.
The target of the morning mission for our Group was the Castel Maggiere Marshalling Yard. Alternate targets were any active marshalling yard in north Italy except Florence and Rimini. For the third time since the Group became operational, Colonel Glantzberg, leading the Group, was forced to hit an alternate target because of bad weather at the primary. He made five 360° turns in an effort to find the target. Finally a run was made on the marshalling yard at Marina di Carrara. Not much damage was done to the target, but an aluminum plant near the target was hard hit with a beautiful pattern by a flight led by Captain Goree. Even more important, a concentration of enemy munition stores nearby was squarely hit with considerable damage resulting.
Mission
No. 23, 13 May 1944 – Imola M/Y, Italy
Missions of the Fifteenth Air Force on this day followed the general pattern of those for the 12th of May. The target assigned to this Group was the marshalling yard at Faenza. From the initial point at Marradi the lead bombardier, Lt. Murphy, picked up the wrong target. As a result, the Group bombed the marshalling yard at Imola, which is but a short distance northwest of Faenza on the Rimini-Florence Railway Line. A beautiful bombing pattern covered the target with 28 per cent of the bombs within a 1,000 feet of the briefed aiming point. As was the case on the previous day, no enemy airplanes were seen. This was the first mission the Group had flown without one or more early returns.
Mission
No. 24, 14 May 1944 – Padua M/Y, Italy
The whole Air Force was still hammering away at the marshalling yards in Northern Italy. The target for this mission was a marshalling yard at Padua that was heavily defended by anti-aircraft guns. The lead bombardier, Captain Leffler, turned in a superior job with 60 percent of the bombs dropped falling within a 1,000 feet of the briefed aiming point. Again no enemy aircraft were seen, but thirty-two of the thirty-six planes over the target were hit by flak and one man was injured.
Mission
No. 25, 17 May 1944 – Porto Ferrajo Steel Mill and Harbor (Elba Island)
Continued good weather and good bombing marked this mission. From a coordinate in the Tyrrhenian Sea as an initial point, the bomb run resulted in a splendid pattern and a score of 29 per cent. The steel mill and some of the harbor installations were hard hit. Lt. Stiles was the lead bombardier on this mission.
Mission
No. 26, 18 May 1944 – Belgrade Zemun A/D, Yugoslavia
Strategy of the Fifteenth Air Force suddenly switched the Bomb Groups on this date from the marshalling yards in Northern Italy to the Oil Refineries at Ploesti. Bad weather prevented the Group from getting to their primary target, Xenia Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Roumania. The target selected for bombing was the now familiar alternate and last resort target, the Belgrade Zemun A/D in Yugoslavia. Above a solid undercast Colonel Glantzberg led the Group in such a way as to make it possible to drop the bombs on the center of the most concentrated flak area. The results were unobserved.
Mission
No. 27, 19 May 1944 – Rocco Viaduct, Italy
The Rocco Viaduct, on the main railroad line from Genoa to Rome, was the first bridge attacked by the Group as a primary target. Part of the bomb load for this mission was 2,000 pound general purpose bombs. This was the first time bombs this large had been used by the Group.
Crews were briefed to hit this target by flights. When they arrived at the target area, they found the viaduct obscured by 9/10 undercast. No flak at the target permitted the flights to circle and make repeated bomb runs on the target. Lt. Colonel Hawes, who led the formation, made eight passes at the target, the last one from 3,000 feet. Some flights abandoned the target in search of targets of opportunity. No hits were scored on the target. Enemy fighters in Northern Italy were still conspicuous by their absence.
Mission
No. 28, 22 May 1944 – Piombino Harbor Area, Italy
Against the supply dumps and harbor installations at Piombino the Group carried incendiary clusters for the first time. The weather over the target was CAVU. Major Burke, the formation leader, maintained his record of leading highly successful missions when the crews laid down a superior formation pattern directly on the target. Only two enemy airplanes were seen on this mission. For the second time during the month there were no early returns.
1st Lt. James T. Bennett, who was being checked out as a flight leader by Flight Leader 1st Lt. Edward W. Peterson, and his crew were lost on this mission. The plane left the formation at the initial point in the Tyrrhenian Sea and was not seen again.
Mission
No. 29, 23 May 1944 – Subiaco Road Junction, Italy
The Group was assigned on a tactical mission in support of the Ground Forces in Italy who were pushing the enemy northward. The target was a highway junction at the foot of a steep hill in a deep narrow valley. Ground maps were used instead of target charts. Crossing over a series of mountain ridges, the Group found its target despite an eight-tenths undercast. Sixty-seven per cent of the bombs dropped on this target were within 1,000 feet of the center of impact.
Mission
No. 30, 24 May 1944 – Wiener Neustadt Wollersdorf A/D, Austria
Another mission to Wiener Neustadt, this time with Colonel Glantzberg leading the Wing. The possible success of this mission was ruined by excessive cloud coverage of the target plus the fact that oil, which had leaked from a line on the nose turret guns, froze and obscured the vision of Captain Leffler, lead bombardier. Overshooting the target on the first run, the Group made a 360° circle, lost the other Groups in the formation, and made another run. Because of crippled planes in the formation, the lead ship dropped its bombs rather than make a third run on the target.
Again there was fighter opposition and intense flak. Thirty planes were encountered and the following claims were scored: two destroyed, one probable and three damaged. Twenty-three of our planes were hit by flak and two were lost. Flight leader 1st Lt. Robert S. Bigelow with the 766th Squadron Operations Officer, Captain John W. Dickenson as co-pilot, was lost to flak over the target. 2nd Lt. William R. Diggs lost an engine to flak over the target, dropped out of formation, and was not seen again. The Wiener Neustadt target was still rough!
Mission
No. 31, 25 May 1944 – Carnoules M/Y, France
The Fifiteenth Air Force suddenly swung to France for targets. In the absence of both flak and fighters with CAVU weather, the Group got 35 per cent of its bombs within 1,000 feet of the briefed aiming point on the marshalling yard and the roundhouse at Carnoules, France.
Mission
No. 32, 26 May 1944 – Lyon/Vaise M/Y, France
Back again to France, this time to Lyon-Vaise Marshalling Yard. Again the weather was CAVU, there was no flak, only two enemy aircraft were seen, and Major Burke turned in another excellent mission when the Group dropped 54 per cent of its bombs within a 1,000 foot circle.
On this mission Flight Leader 1st Lt. Marion C. Mixson furnished a splendid example of the determined aggressiveness with which this Group was handing out damage to the enemy. Flying as co-pilot while checking out 2nd Lt. Robert G. Wester as a first pilot, Lt. Mixson was forced to turn back from the mission when he lost an engine over the Tyrrhenian Sea. Instead of dropping his bombs in the water or returning them to Base, he went looking for a target of opportunity. After passing up two targets, the navigator, 2nd Lt. Paul Dietrick, saw a long convoy of enemy vehicles. The bombardier, 2nd Lt. James Colavito Jr., threw a road block in front of the convoy which was then strafed by RAF spitfires.
Mission
No. 33, 27 May 1944 – Salon de Provence A/D, France
This mission to France was different from the previous two in that extremely accurate heavy flak greeted the Group at landfall on the French Coast. This time the target was the airdrome at Salon de Provence, a nest for Ju-88s that had been raiding shipping in the Mediterranean.
The score for the mission was 24 per cent. 2nd Lt. Gerald J. Maroney’s plane was damaged by flak and left the formation. When last seen, the plane was heading north over France.
Mission
No. 34, 29 May 1944 – Wiener Neustadt Werke 1, Austria
Wiener Neustadt again. This was Lt. Colonel Hawes’s second trip to this target as Group Leader, and Lt. Strong’s second trip as lead pilot. The field order dispatched thirteen Groups of the Air Force to the airplane manufacturing and servicing installations on both the Nord and Wollersdorf Airdromes. Our target was Werke 1 on the Nord Field. The 461st Group was one of the last Groups to arrive over the target. After the Group was on its bomb run, it was necessary to change course because of the possibility of being dropped through by another group flying directly overhead. As Lt. Strong pulled the formation to the right, the lead bombardier Lt. King released his bombs on the four buildings nearest the line on Wollersdorf Field.
As a result of the bombing done by the thirteen Groups, Wiener Neustadt really burned. As combat crew members looked back when leaving the target area, they were convinced it would be a long time before they would have to return again to the target they disliked more than any other target to which they had been assigned. Again flak was intense, accurate, and heavy over a large area, and the enemy fighters were aggressive. Our gunners claimed three enemy airplanes destroyed without any losses to our Group. The combat crews flying the mission were enthusiastic about the coverage given by our fighter escort.
Mission
No. 35, 30 May 1944 – Wels A/C Factory, Austria
At Wels, Austria, the Group had the new and pleasant experience of attacking an aircraft factory at which there was no flak. Neither were fighters seen on this mission. The lead navigator, Lt. Dusenberry, carefully kept the group out of range of the heavily defended areas close to the target. The lead bombardier, Lt. Murphy, completely sprayed the target with incendiaries to give the lead pilots, Major Applegate and Lt. Specht, a superior mission.
Mission
No. 36, 31 May 1944 – Concordia Vega Oil Refinery – Ploesti, Roumania
On the last day of the month the Group made its second trip to the month to Ploesti. In defense of the target, the enemy added smoke screens to his aggressive fighter resistance and flak concentration. Despite this resistance Captain Leffler got a score of 27 per cent for the mission.
2nd Lt. Samuel N. Norris got his damaged plane back to the Island of Brac, where he and his crew were forced to bail out. 2nd Lt. George N. Ryder Jr. attempted to bail his crew out on the Island of Vis, but they missed the Island. The crew members landed in the water and all of them are believed to be lost.
COMMENDATION
“FROM: LEE, CO, 49TH BOMB WING (H), APO 520
“TO: COMMANDING OFFICER, 451ST, 461ST, 484TH BOMB GROUP (H), APO 520.
“THE FOLLOWING TELETYPE IS QUOTED FOR YOUR INFORMATION. RECOGNITION OF YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENT BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE UNITED STATES STRATEGIC AIR FORCES IN EUROPE, LIEUTENANT GENERAL SPAATZ, IS PASSED TO YOU WITH MY MOST SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS ADDED THERETO. ‘WEIGHT AND EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR ATTACKS DURING THE PAST MONTH REPRESENT FULL EXPLOITATION OF THE POWER WITHIN YOUR FORCE. THESE ATTACKS HAVE NOT ONLY CONTINUED THE EXCELLENT OPERATIONS OF PREVIOUS MONTHS IN WEARING DOWN THE GERMAN AIR STRENGTH, WHICH STANDS GUARD OVER THEIR WAR MACHINE, BUT HAVE STRUCK HEAVILY AT ITS HEART. PARTICULARLY SUCCESSFUL HAVE BEEN THE ATTACKS ON THE ENEMY’S LIMITED OIL RESOURCES, BOTH AGAINST PLOESTI REFINERIES AND THE SYNTHETIC OIL PLANTS IN GERMANY. PLEASE EXTEND MY COMMENDATIONS TO THE AIR CREWS AND ALL OTHER OF YOUR COMMAND RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE OPERATIONS’”.
“FROM: LEE, CO, 49TH BOMB WING (H), APO 520.
“TO: COMMANDING OFFICER, 451ST, 461ST, 484TH BOMB GROUP (h), APO 520.
“THE FOLLOWING TELETYPE IS QUOTED FOR YOUR INFORMATION. ‘CITE RAF BAKER 27 THE TERRIFIC DESTRUCTION INFLICTED ON THE ENEMY BY UNITS OF THE FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE ON 29 AND 30 MAY IS A RECORD WITHOUT PRECEDENCE ANYWHERE. LET US KEEP THIS HIGH STANDARD OF ATTAINMENT AS OUR GOAL. THE HUN CAN’T TAKE IT.’”
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Mission |
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Target |
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1st
Lt. |
William
C. Wallace |
Los
Angeles, Cal. |
10/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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2nd
Lt. |
Henry
S. Towne |
Ramsey,
N.J. |
10/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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2nd
Lt. |
Virgil
S. Miles |
Dighton,
Kans. |
10/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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2nd
Lt. |
William
E. Ryder |
Santa
Cruz, Cal. |
10/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
Alfred
H. Allen |
Henderson,
Texas |
10/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
Anthony
Catalano |
North
Berger, N.J. |
10/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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Sgt. |
Joseph
R. Baca |
Santa
Fe, N.M. |
10/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
Edward
E. Cussen |
Sioux
City, Ia. |
10/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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Sgt. |
Harry
Chabin |
Mahanoy
Plane, Pa. |
10/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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Sgt. |
Robert
E. Hogan |
Columbus,
Indiana |
10/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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1st
Lt. |
James
T. Bennett |
Janesville,
Cal. |
22/5/44 |
Piombino |
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1st
Lt. |
Edward
W. Peterson |
Chicago,
Ill. |
22/5/44 |
Piombino |
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2nd
Lt. |
Robert
W. Owen |
Spokane,
Wash. |
22/5/44 |
Piombino |
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2nd
Lt. |
Albert
A. Bartlett |
Pagosa
Springs, Colo. |
22/5/44 |
Piombino |
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S/Sgt. |
Richard
C. Werner |
Medfield,
Mass. |
22/5/44 |
Piombino |
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S/Sgt. |
Otto
W. Harzdorf |
Detroit,
Mich. |
22/5/44 |
Piombino |
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S/Sgt. |
Lloyd
G. Ivy |
London,
Texas |
22/5/44 |
Piombino |
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S/Sgt. |
Carl
J. Berends |
Englewood,
Kansas |
22/5/44 |
Piombino |
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S/Sgt. |
John
E. Evans |
Brookville,
Pa. |
22/5/44 |
Piombino |
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S/Sgt. |
Don
B. Frehulfer |
Lehighton,
Pa. |
22/5/44 |
Piombino |
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Capt. |
John
W. Dickinson |
Memphis,
Tenn. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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1st
Lt. |
Robert
S. Bigelow |
Roswell,
N.M. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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2nd
Lt. |
Floyd
E. Fisher |
Ottunwa,
Ia. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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2nd
Lt. |
William
J. Muller |
Louisville,
Ky. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
Edwin
A. Rudisill |
Long
Beach, Cal. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
Joseph
P. Tarpey |
Dunellen,
N.J. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
Robert
C. Lane |
Los
Angeles, Cal. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
John
M. Hourican |
Astoria,
L.I., N.Y. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
Frank
P. Caron |
Long
Beach, Cal. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
Michael
T. Paccione |
Brooklyn,
N.Y. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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2nd
Lt. |
William
R. Diggs |
Harvard,
Ill. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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2nd
Lt. |
Donald
W. Hylton |
Bakersfield,
Cal. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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2nd
Lt. |
Kenneth
S. Boggs |
Altoona,
Pa. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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2nd
Lt. |
David
J. Ashby Jr. |
Memphis,
Tenn. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
Walter
E. Jazwa |
Brooklyn,
N.Y. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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S/Sgt. |
Mike
G. Kuhar |
Warren,
Ohio |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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Cpl. |
Gerals
A. Bombardier |
St.
Albans, Vt. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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Sgt. |
Gust
A. Karalis |
Chicago,
Ill. |
24/5/44 |
Wiener
Neustadt |
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Sgt. |
Roy
V. Allen |
Hermliegh,
Texas |
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